fbn02 wrote: Wed Aug 17, 2022 11:19 pm
i tried to go back to usenet a few months ago
it sucks
i tried several different servers trials and the posts were 5 or more years old
i really didnt see anything recent. i was sorting the groups by post count and not activity date so maybe it was me
back in the day my usenet usage got me a phone call from charter as i was in the top 2% of data use lol
Dave
Check out reddit.com/r/usenet and read their FAQ, usenet is pretty different now.
Basically everything gets dmca'ed right off, so what they do is obfuscate the files which you then use a .nzb to stitch everything back together. To get nzb files with current stuff you need to join a few indexer sites, which you generally have to pay for, but it isn't much. Paying for usenet + 1 or 2 indexers is about the cost of a VPN if you were torrenting, so about 100 US a year.
So you need to get a usenet service for the downloading, then find some indexers to find nzb files. Use sabnzbd as a downloader and you will be good to go just dragging the nzb file that you downloaded off the indexer into it. Otherwise just plain searching for things won't yield any good results now a days.